Name: Green Deacon
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1.25 ml Absinthe verte (green); 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

MIST chilled glass with spray or rinse of absinthe to coat the inside and set aside. SHAKE other ingredients with ice and fine strain into absinthe-rinsed chilled glass.

1/24 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
1 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
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La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 51.50 £ 0.09 per cocktail, makes 559.5 Hayman's London Dry Gin, 70cl

£ 9.46 £ 0.61 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Hayman's London Dry Gin, 70cl

£ 26.25 £ 1.69 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Hayman's Sloe Gin, 70cl

£ 24.95 £ 0.80 per cocktail, makes 31 Hayman's Sloe Gin, 70cl

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Review:

Actually, a shade of orange-red rather than green, the name is a reference to the absinthe in this unusual combination of ingredients. The absinthe-rinse is a subtle addition to the Rosy Deacon but propels this classic into a more interesting place.

Variant:

Rosy Deacon

History:

Created in 2009 by Jim Meehan at PDT in New York City, USA, this is a riff on the Rosy Deacon in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Green Deacon contains 168 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
20.61% alc./vol. (41.22° proof)
20.4 grams of pure alcohol

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